From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Apr 1 11:41:51 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA26480 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 11:41:51 -0800 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA26474 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 11:41:47 -0800 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA11929; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 11:41:22 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504011941.LAA11929@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Crazy idea To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 11:41:22 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9504011934.AA07355@junco.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Apr 1, 95 12:34:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1091 Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I was just browsing through a selection of Pentium motherboards for > our next system and noticed that the boards without CPUs are US$200 to > $300 cheaper than those with CPUs. This must be for 60 or 66MHz CPU chips. Or maybe even a 75MHz, here are some ``very good spot prices'' from one source for CPU chips: Pentium 100 CPU Bug Free........................$ 699 Pentium 90 CPU Bug Free ........................$ 564 Pentium 75 CPU Bug Free.........................$ 334 > Now, Intel is sending me an FDIV-bug-free Pentium CPU, but in return I > have to send back my buggy CPU or have a $50 charge appear on my > credit card. Ahh.. I think you dropped a digit there, last I had on Intel's charges for not returning the CPU chip was $550 for a P54C-90, and $400 for a P5-60. > Do you think it's at all expedient to just keep the buggy CPU and save > $150 to $250 off a CPU-less motherboard? I can live with the FDIV bug. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD